HOW DID NIXON, TURN CHINA INTO OUR PREVIOUS FOE INTO OUR GREAT TRADING PARTNER?

This is according to what I was told by someone who grew up in China under Mao.

Mao had spent his entire rule telling China that capitalism was doomed to collapse under its own weight due to internal inconsistencies, according to Marx.

By 1970, communism was on the brink of collapsing under its own weight, like most western economists had predicted.

Mao responded to this imminent collapse by telling China that the USA economy had collapsed, and the people were starving and wearing rags.

He hoped to divert attention from his failure by creating war with the USA to “liberate” us from the faillure of capitalism.

US intelligence of course knew all about this. Nixon persuaded Mao to allow him to visit. Mao did not know what Nixon was going to do.

Nixon arrived with planeload after planeload of fine American goods and many many other persons.

The were all wearing fine clothes, driving fine cars, and they brought an abundance of American goods that we took for granted here, but that seemed like unimaginalbe luxuries in China.

Things like apples and oranges. In China, the father had to save up for a week to buy one orange. Each member of the family could eat only one section of orange.

Americans ate an entire orange. Every day.

That’s when the Chinese knew Mao lied to them.

From that visit, Mao’s power diminished.

Because the Chinese knew – they were the ones who were starving and dressed in rags. They thought it was the same in the USA, because Mao said so.

But Mao lied.

That started the long change that has led to the modern industrialized China that is now the largest source of imported goods to the USA.

Not only did he open the door to this once impoverished country, he also opened trade.

I don’t share your assessment of Nixon and Henry Kessinger. There activity has caused many of the economic problems we have today, in the US !